THURSDAY January 14, 2021

One God, One Mediator

For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
1 Timothy 2:5-6

Jesus is the Mediator, the Bridge Builder between God and man. Man tries to avoid Christ as the Mediator. He tries to receive salvation in other ways. Religion is man’s way of trying to reach God.

If you study Catholicism, there are areas of deception in what they teach, especially concerning Jesus and Mary. Catholics are taught Mary is an intercessor. She is the mediator who brings them to Jesus Christ. A priest may explain that Mary is just like a friend. Yet in truth, we can pray directly to Jesus because He alone is our Mediator.

Although the Roman Catholic Church believes Jesus is God, they teach worship of Mary. Although sincere in what they preach, Mary becomes the focus rather that Jesus. Jesus is our only Mediator. I remember going to the Catholic Church, and in the confessional, I spoke to the priest about my sins. He would tell me to pray certain prayers for forgiveness. That is religion. Only Jesus Christ can forgive sinners by divine atonement, through His blood shed for you on Calvary––on the Cross. He alone claimed to set men free from sin (John 8:36).

Unitarianism believes there is no Trinity. Jesus is not the Christ, and the crucifixion is not seen as a blood sacrifice for sin. The Muslim religion of Islam is a monotheistic belief in the supreme deity––Allah. Their prophet is Mohammad. Jesus is not God, but only one of 124,000 prophets.

The truth you find in the Bible will expose false doctrines––all the misinformation and lies they spread. If you study the Bible, you will come to know the truth––Christ is the Savior of the world.

You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.
~C. S. Lewis~

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